G02F 1/0154
Using electro-optic effects
Official title: {using electro-optic effects, e.g. linear electro optic [LEO], Pockels, quadratic electro optical [QEO] or Kerr effect}
G02F1/0154 (Using electro-optic effects) appears on 63 US grants and 60 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02F- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Microphone component and method of manufacture16 Jun 2026US 12,659,642 B2Sensibel AS
- Apparatus and method for intensity modulation in a photonic computing system based on interferometric coupling9 Jun 2026US 12,650,629 B2Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.
- Optical phase modulator7 Oct 2025US 12,436,414 B2Denso Corporation
- Plasmonic photonic structures including a layer that exhibits an electric-field-induced Pockels effect16 Sep 2025US 12,416,821 B2GLOBALFOUNDRIES U. S. Inc.
- Heterogeneous integration and electro-optic modulation of III-nitride photonics on a silicon photonic platform8 Apr 2025US 12,271,068 B2Rtx Bbn Technologies, Inc.
- Hybrid electro-optic phase shifters24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287939 A1GLOBALFOUNDRIES U. S. Inc.
- Microphone component and method of manufacture24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292381 A1Sensibel AS
- Silicon optical modulator27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251924 A1Picmore Technology (Suzhou) Ltd.
- Artificial waveguide, phase shifter, coupler, switcher, delay line and resonator20 Aug 2026US 2026/0244040 A1B. G. Negev Technologies and Applications Ltd., At Ben-Gurion University
- Optical phase modulator, optical circuit, mach-zehnder interferometer, and optical accelerator13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235894 A1Nichia Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Planar optical waveguide, modulator, variable coupler and switch158US 4,166,669 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1979
- Electro-optic waveguide device51US 5,082,342 AThe Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · 1992
- Electro-optic waveguide device43US 5,239,598 AThe Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · 1993
- Semiconductor phase modulator26US 6,256,426 B1Alcatel · 2001
- Crosstie overlay slow-wave structure and components made thereof for monolithic integrated circuits and optical modulators20US 4,914,407 ABoard of Regents, The University of Texas System · 1990